During this time, Ihonovsky and his entourage had a very busy life in Zhili, the main business of which was to find a house - this incident was indeed a little difficult for the officials of the Han Empire to understand, in fact, this concept of embassies and consulates was somewhat foreign to Chinese officials in the seventeenth century, and in previous historical records, the foreign 'diplomacy' activities between countries were rarely carried out in this way, or not the term "ambassador to the Han Dynasty".

If there is a similar situation, we can compare some events in the "Historical Records", but the ambassador at that time was not called an ambassador, the correct name was "proton", as for the slightly lower-level subordinate officials, there was no title such as secretary counselor or military attaché at all, and the Chinese generally called it "master bo" or "engaged" or even "diner". All in all, for a long time, the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Rites, who were in charge of the reception and negotiations, had no idea what these people were here to do—or rather, they understood it this way: since there was no war and there was no direct threat to each other, why did these guys live in Beijing for a long time?

Because of the lack of communication and understanding, the Russian Tsarist Empire also made some small jokes in the process of establishing the embassy in Beijing, for example, at the beginning, the officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Han Dynasty did not know what this so-called "Russian Embassy" was. The General Staff Headquarters asked the Han military to send 'elite' troops to protect it.

In everyone's minds, this embassy is probably a "noble hotel annex", it may be that foreigners don't like "noisy markets", they like our "pastoral style" or "simple countryside" or something, in short, it is very literati and very poetic - this argument is very appetizing to all of you, and everyone suddenly admires a group of Russian envoys: it really deserves to be the envoy of a great power! That's how the style is dusty.

But in this case, we are in the Heavenly Empire, so we must not lose face, the so-called "listen to the strings and know the elegant meaning", we are a gathering of Chinese humanities, how can we not even understand this? ! Therefore, the project was immediately launched, lest people say that our Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military are all a bunch of philistines.

When most of the people here were vigorously busy, the official of the Ministry of Rites who was responsible for accompanying the reception throughout the whole process triumphantly told His Excellency Ambassador Ihonovsky, who was looking for a house in the slow world: You are always busy, why bother you with this trivial idea, our big man has already arranged the embassy, you can pack up and move.

One can imagine the look of Ihonovsky and his entourage crying and laughing, so the two sides had to carry out a series of mediation discussions on the concept of "embassy", when the Russian envoy told the Han officials that the so-called "Russian embassy" is the territory of His Majesty the Tsar in China, without permission, the Han state must not be violated, etc., the Imperial Ministry of Rites was in an uproar: this is repaid, this is repaid, it's really opposite, isn't it?! This gang of barbarians has really eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, there is no war here, you are thinking about ceding the land, and as soon as you open your mouth, it is the capital, really when our Han millions of heroes are not able to set up?!

So the negotiations broke down immediately, and Li Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, immediately wrote to Lin Feng, the king of the Han Dynasty, in his opinion, there is nothing to talk about in this matter, what is "insulting the national body"? What does it mean to "lose power and humiliate the country"? If this matter can be compromised, then he, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, really can't find any other way to "thank the countrymen" except for hanging.

Lin Feng was quite embarrassed in this matter, at this time, the matter of the Russian mission in the capital "separation" has spread all over the government and the opposition, and a group of officials have discussed it, at this time he really didn't know how to explain this matter for a while, in fact, about the Russians stationed in the capital, most of the officials' opinion is "This generation of barbarians saw that China was strong and prosperous, and their hearts admired it, so they sent protons to seek refuge", and compared it with the history of the Turks and Goryeo in the Li Shimin era. Therefore, the original tone set here is: our Han must be polite to them without losing affection, and at the same time, we must also "suppress and appease them", that is to say, we must let people feel the bearing of our Han Celestial Empire, and we must also let them understand our strong strength, and through these means, they will eventually have the feeling of "like a son dependent on his father" in China.

It is conceivable that Ihonovsky, of course, did not intend to make Peter I Bailinfeng his godfather, and the Russian side did not intend to give the Han king any honorific title such as "Heavenly Khan", so the two ideologies immediately collided and broke into blood.

When this matter was sorted out, it was already a few months later, and it took Lin Feng a lot of effort to make his group of civil and military ministers understand the relationship between the Great Han Kingdom and the Russian Empire.

Regarding the matter of the so-called Russian embassy, Lin Feng gave an explanation that it was a personal exchange: because the Russians were very polite, after our envoy group went to Moscow, the emperor of the other people did not say a word, and immediately ceded a piece of territory to us in his own capital - what does this mean? Who are we? We are the Heavenly Empire, so can we still take advantage of others? Besides, who is my Han King? Then can you owe the Russian emperor this favor? Is the character so bad?

Now that the Russian mission has come all the way, can we make people look down on it? What is the difference between taking advantage of a small advantage and stealing a small 'touch'? If you really do it, then how do we Chinese men behave? So if you don't repay this favor, wouldn't it be a joke for the barbarians all over the world.

It is undeniable that Lin Feng's genius in this area is undoubted, and no matter what happens, His Majesty the great Han King can find another way to find a very appropriate explanation, so that most people feel that it is very suitable. This time is no exception, after Zhongnanhai's explanation came out, the government and the opposition, including the most provocative Jingshi Qingliu, felt very reasonable, you must know that this kind of thing is the face of everyone, and the characteristics of the Chinese are: you can lose anything, but you can't lose face.

In this series of events, for better or worse, the situation of the Russian Tsarist Empire's envoys in Beijing was very awkward, and the series of events that were now taking place made them feel a little incomprehensible, because from their point of view, the attitude of the Russian Empire towards the Great Han State was very friendly, and in many respects, including territorial disputes, military alliances, etc., they had great hopes, and were even ready to make some compromises, so as to establish a strong and close alliance with this Far Eastern power, which they only found outThe country they live in is so bizarre and strange that they can't 'fathom'.

During this incident, Lord Ihonovsky officially launched his foreign 'friendship' activities, and successively visited Li Guangdi, the prime minister of the Han Empire, Chen Tingjing, the secretary of the household department, Chen Menglei, the imperial historian of the inspection capital, Xu Danyang, the 'waiter' of the trade and commerce, and other important officials. Of course, most of these activities were carried out in very 'private' methods, and in this series of activities, the poor Russians made a lot of appearances in Beijing, and even became the laughing stock of the whole Beijingers for a time.

In fact, this plan had been drawn up as early as Moscow, and this time the Russian envoy corps was mixed with a large number of excellent chefs, bartenders and well-trained beautiful 'waitress' and 'women'. Shouldn't our great Russian Empire also pay homage to one? Let those Far Easterners see our vast and far-reaching Russian culture.

The invitation of the Russian envoy group was all successful, and from the perspective of the Chinese, a group of high-ranking officials did not dare to neglect at first, and at the same time, none of them dared to regard this matter as a play, but treated this matter 100 percent from the height of the country, the nation, and the foreign 'exchange', so when they received the invitation from Lord Ikhonovsky, including Prime Minister Li Guangdi and others, they immediately gladly went to the appointment. Several well-intentioned people, such as Zhou Peigong, chief of the general staff, and Wang Shirong, the privy envoy of the military command, were even more trembling as if they were walking on thin ice, and sent an 800-mile fast horse official document to various places, and urgently recruited several famous masters from Shaolin and Wudang to come to help, and here Li Fu racked his brains and personally went to the Hanlin Academy to pick people, and found a few scholars who were 'fine' in the Western Regions culture to act as a 'door' face.

In short, the bosses are fully prepared, just wait for His Excellency the Marquis Ihonovsky to send a dart, if you want to compete in martial arts, if you want to write poetry, it doesn't matter if you want to be on the whole set, in short, this face must be preserved.

However, when I really arrived at the place, I realized that this was not the case at all, as soon as Prime Minister Lee Kwang-chi entered the 'door', two tall blonde beautiful 'women' hugged him, and the soft 'jade' Wen Xiang bumped into her arms - to be honest, Lord Lee Kwang-chi would never reject this kind of treatment, but it also depends on the occasion!! Let's not talk about Taoism or Taoism for the time being, there are high-ranking officials in the hall, and 60% of them are his subordinates, what is it to hug and hug here? Where is the prestige of the Prime Minister? How will you control the lower officials in the future?

Under the leadership of Lord Li Guangdi, except for a few limited officers of the Han army, the other officials were immediately defeated, and they were not sensitive to Russian culture - the marquis's eyes were about to fall, in fact, the meaning of those beautiful 'women' was nothing more than greetings, taking coats and hats to help hang them on the coat rack, and inviting the adults to dance in advance. These Chinese adults don't think that Chinese men and Russian men are dancing together, right?!

Unexpectedly, just a passing scene, people hurriedly said goodbye, the marquis was shocked, in fact, he has prepared a lot of 'fine' color programs, such as saber dance or harvest dance, etc., absolutely healthy and not stained with yellow' After these national dances, the Marquis will come out to congratulate all the adults present in detail about the glorious deeds of the great Russian nation, and it is fair to say that this method is quite high-level, according to common sense, a group of Chinese officials, after seeing those performances full of Russian flavor, will be extremely impressed by the introduction of the Marquis Ihonovsky, and if you are lucky, the Marquis may even establish some of these important figures'Private' friendship, but unfortunately, these 'fine' color programs have not yet had time to be implemented, and they have been stillborn.

Of course, these very interesting news are not hidden from Lin Feng, although this time the ball of the Marquis of Ihonovsky invited His Majesty the King of Han, but limited to the national body, Lin Feng will definitely not be able to attend this kind of occasion, in fact, just before the misunderstanding happened, the King of Han already had some kind of bad premonition, unlike these officials, Lin Feng knew the essence of this occasion, and he did not think that Li Guangdi and others would like this event.

As expected, when Ihonovsky hit a lot of walls, he finally remembered His Majesty the King of Han in Zhongnanhai, in his impression, this Majesty was a very interesting person, and he was not exclusive to many foreign customs, and it seemed that it was easier to 'deal' with those high-ranking political officials with serious faces and serious faces.

Perhaps because of the more familiar relationship, like the last meeting, Lin Feng was more casual with Ihonovsky, and he also met with the Russian ambassador in a side hall next to the 'flower' garden.

"Marquis Ihonovsky, the envoy of the Russian Tsarist Empire to the Great Han Dynasty, meets His Majesty the King of the Great Han Kingdom, and wishes you a long and healthy life forever!"

"It's all old acquaintances, why should the old 'chicken' be so polite?!" At this time, Lin Feng paid attention to the young man behind Ihonovsky, and when Ihonovsky knelt down to say hello according to Chinese etiquette, the young man stood proudly erect, his eyes were level, and his expression was neither humble nor arrogant.

Lang Zhong made Li Ergou breathe rapidly, a trace of anger appeared on his face, and he was about to scold him immediately, but Lin Feng smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to stop it, turned his head and smiled at Ihonovsky, "Old 'chicken', how are you doing this time?" ”

"Thank you for the care of His Majesty the King, your ministers and people are very friendly to the Russians, we had a great time in Beijing!"

"That's good, that's good! I'm relieved when you say that! Lin Feng nodded and smiled at the marquis, "Actually, I don't care how you're doing," he stretched out his hand and pointed at the young man, "It's just that you can't wronged this gentleman!" ”

Ihonovsky looked back in amazement and said, "...... Thanks a lot...... Thank you, Your Majesty, for your patronage! …… But ......"

Lin Feng waved his hand, pointed to the chair next to him, and smiled at the young man, "Please take a seat!" But he stood up, walked slowly down the steps, and sat down opposite the young man.

This matter was very rude, and Li Ergou next to him widened his eyes in disbelief.

Lin Feng looked at Ihonovsky, turned his head and smiled at the young man, "Is it His Majesty Emperor Peter?!" He nodded, "Hello! ”